Missouri Western State University will host a celebration of the Chinese New Year at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8 in Blum Student Union, rooms 222 and 223. The celebration is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are requested by emailing yliu@missouriwestern.edu by Wednesday, Feb. 3. The celebration will serve as an introduction to [...]
More than 200 students from area middle and high schools will participate in honor choirs sponsored by the choral studies program at Missouri Western State University. The honor choirs, along with the MWSU Concert Chorale and Chamber Singers, will present a concert at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8 in the Fulkerson Center on the Missouri [...]
[rev_slider Printmaking1]An art display in downtown St. Joseph will feature prints from more than 20 past and present students at Missouri Western State University. “Left Behind: MWSU Printmaking Past and Present” will be exhibited from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Olive Gallery, 513 Francis Street, as part of the First [...]
Award-winning producer and musician Rudy Currence will perform at Missouri Western State University at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10 in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall. The concert, part of Missouri Western’s Black Heritage Month celebration, is free and open to the public. Currence has written and produced songs for R&B/Pop singers Mya and [...]
Western Playhouse, the summer theatre company at Missouri Western State University, will hold Equity principal and non-Equity auditions for roles in “Fiddler on the Roof,” to be performed June 17-25. Auditions will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, on Feb. 6, and in St. Joseph on Feb. 7. Auditions will be held from 10 a.m. [...]
The annual Super Science Saturday event to benefit the St. Joseph Museums will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, in Agenstein and Remington Halls on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Science educators from Missouri Western and four local high schools present interactive science experiments for children of all [...]
Dr. Robert Vartabedian, president of Missouri Western State University, will provide expert testimony in support of two bills related to suicide prevention before a Missouri Senate committee on Wednesday, Jan. 27. The Senate Education Committee will hear two bills: Senate Bill 646, which requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop training guidelines [...]
The Missouri Western State University Speech and Debate program finished in the top 16 at a parliamentary debate tournament at the University of Utah on January 8-10. In preliminary rounds, Mike Smith and Chris Miles, two juniors from Independence, Missouri, finished with a 4-1 record, earning them an 11th rank overall and a spot in [...]
The Board of Governors at Missouri Western State University has selected Lawhon Construction Company of St. Joseph to do some renovations to Potter Hall, funded by House Bill 19 capital improvement money. By a unanimous vote in a board poll on Jan. 16, the board accepted a bid of $328,500 from Lawhon, the lowest of [...]
“Patchwork and Thread,” a selection of artwork exploring themes and techniques that reference quilting through diverse media, will be exhibited at the Potter Art Gallery at Missouri Western State University Jan. 19 through Feb. 19. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, and is free and open to [...]
